Gun Violence Significantly Increased by Social Interactions

U.S. News & World Report ^ | November 14, 2013 | Allie Bidwell

[Q-ManRN]

The network in question consists of more than 3,700 high-risk individuals – young, African-American males from a poor neighborhood – who were clustered into a network by instances of co-offending, meaning each person in the group had been arrested with another person.

Papachristos says it makes sense to look at the spread of gun violence like the spread of a disease or an epidemic, comparing it to how people contract HIV. Much like the roles needle sharing and unprotected sex play in the spread of HIV, a person's behaviors and personal associations play a role in the spread of gun violence homicides, he says.

"It's the behavior of sharing needles that puts you at risk for contracting HIV, not simply being poor and black and living in a certain neighborhood," Papachristos says. "The same is true with violence. It's who you hang around with that gets you in trouble."

[Travis McGee]

The CW2 Cube: Mapping the Meta-terrain of Civil War 2

http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/bracken-the-cw2-cube-mapping-the-meta-terrain-of-civil-war-two/

[GeronL]

bump

That sounds like the way it should be

[Gritty]

That sounds like the advice I always gave to my kids; "If you hang around with losers, you will become a loser like them!"

[imardmd1]

Fee, what an original thesis! (/sarc)

Even my grandmother knew, "Birds of a feather flock together." You need a PhD to figure this out?

[Reeses]

The message is: pay no attention to city crime rates. You are reasonably safe in a Democrat ghetto if you don’t socialize much with all the HIV carriers, drug injectors, and thugs surrounding you in three dimensions. Just blame the victim for their poor taste in friends.

[Mark17]

The things I’ve noticed that they have in common are two parent families, and extended families that love them, and work to raise them right.

You realize of course, you are totally, completely, 100% non PC, but I agree with you :-)

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Blacks aged 10-24 committing murder at astronomical rate

Murder Most Swedish

[jsanders2001]

Lay a gun on the table. Walk away. Wait awhile. Notice that it never fires itself?

Screw gun-hating never fired one liberals

[gundog]

I wonder to what extent the decreasing murder rate is attributable to murderers being murdered.

[3Fingas]

Where can I get grant money doing useless studies of things we all know by common sense?

[Q-ManRN]

Seems like everyone else gets the money, doesn’t it?

[smokingfrog]

I wonder to what extent the decreasing murder rate is attributable to murderers being murdered.[?]

.. or permanently rehabilitated?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

“Papachristos says it makes sense to look at the spread of gun violence like the spread of a disease or an epidemic, comparing it to how people contract HIV.”

And, whenever the opportunity presents itself, we quarantine these disease carriers in prisons.

[patriotsblood]

This is exactly why 30-round mags were invented—feral crowd control.

[rellimpank]

—yep—I often thought during the last Crips-Bloods “war” in Las Vegas that the next murder most likely “solved” the last one—

[Disambiguator]

It's who you hang around with that gets you in trouble

I'm glad I was sitting down when I read that. Who knew?

[dfwgator]

Remove black crime statistics from US crime statistics and we are as peaceful as Sweden.

As long as you remove crimes committed by Muslims in Sweden.

[Rodney Dangerfield]

Google “The Color of Crime”

[bunkerhill7]

Never bring a sociologist to a gunfight.

[Lazamataz]

Here is a news flash from U.S. News & World Report via Yale University: if you habitually hang around with criminals, you are more likely to be shot or meet a violent end. Who would have guessed that?

I have a great new gun control plan!!!1!

Let's ban all gun possession from felons!!1111!!!

Elect me and I will make it happen, by gum.